Reader review by Astrid Jakobs. Glen is engaged to a wonderful gal, but he has not told her that he likes to wear women's clothing. Does Glen really love Barbara, or does he just want her for her pink angora sweater?

It was the hallucination scene in GLEN OR GLENDA that started me on my love of bad movies. I didn't know anyone could film someone like that--and I didn't yet understand why anyone would film something like that!

Made famous in the film "Ed Wood", the writer/director of both this and the possibly worst SF movie of all time, "Plan 9 from Outer Space".

According to that film, Wood was a transvestite himself so he thought this was a really important story to tell.

The big mysteries for me are how Wood could keep getting funding to make his terrible movies, and why the heck Lugosi agreed to appear in them. Apparently he was down on his luck, long past his Dracula days, but still...

I don't think I could process the fact that this movie was directed by and starring Ed Wood while I was actually watching it. Brain might've exploded.

This review is a bit shallow as the movie is more than simply bad; it is genuinely stupefying. I'm still at a loss to approach the list of everything wrong with it.

It's easy to laugh at because transgendered people are easy to laugh at (especially if you're ideas about sex haven't advanced since puberty) but I dare any conscious movie-watcher to even attempt viewing this one seriously.

Logged

"Do you have something against droppings?" "Well, no, I..." "Sure, everyone says that till they step in it."

Despite what many of us may think, most transvestites are actually heterosexuals. Many of them being married and with a family.

Dr. Alton: "Glen is a transvestite, but he is not a homosexual. Transvestism is the term given by medical science to those persons who desperately wish to wear the clothing of the opposite sex, yet whose sex life in all instances remains quite normal."

Despite what many of us may think, most transvestites are actually heterosexuals. Many of them being married and with a family.

Dr. Alton: "Glen is a transvestite, but he is not a homosexual. Transvestism is the term given by medical science to those persons who desperately wish to wear the clothing of the opposite sex, yet whose sex life in all instances remains quite normal."

I find it strange that the Restored Image DVD version is cut compared to the unrestored tape derived Public Domain version that Passport Video released along with the other Wood movies. Seriously in the Image print lines are cut, brief scenes are cut and its altogether 3 minutes shorter. It makes no difference though the public domain version seems more complete.